Harlan County

Harlan County, Nebraska

PO Box 698Alma, NE 68920Phone:(308) 928-2173Fax:(308) 928-2079

On the central southern border of NE, southwest of Kearney; organized Jun 3, 1871 from Lincoln County. Name Origin: For either Thomas Harlan, a local official, or for his uncle, James Harlan (1820-99), U.S. senator from IA (1855-65; 1867-73) and U.S. secretary of the interior (1865-66)

Michael Ruth, author of Memory of a Miner, are delighted to share this memoir of his father, Carl Ruth, an old-school miner - and natural-born storyteller - who mined in Harlan County, Kentucky, between 1931 and 1959.

In Harlan County, a coal-producing community on the Virginia border, Grimes backer and county magistrate David Kennedy said anyone who gives Grimes a chance would see ''an old Southern Democrat, a conservative Democrat.

According to the Harlan Daily Enterprise, while describing the kids' reactions to the healthy-eating plan, Harlan County Public Schools board member, Myra Mosley, said that the kids claim that the food tastes like vomit, the Washington Times reported.

95) comes from a founder of grassroots leadership and offers a fine survey of the author's work in some of the most important grassroots organizations of the last fifty years, from the Southern Civil Rights Movement to the Harlan County coal miners' strike.

He writes about the controversy over books at schools in West Virginia, the miner's strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, the fight over low-income housing in Forest Hills, Queens, a truckers' strike, and other "tribes" and their stories.

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